12 Lessons learned from Brain Surgery

1. I learned that I am not alone.
2. I learned that healing the body takes time.
3. I learned that I am the doctor.
4. I learned who were really my friends.
5. I learned that illness gives focus and purpose to life.
6. I learned that the body doesn’t lie and it accepts lies as truth.
7. I learned that no matter how spiritual I am hurt does hurt.
8. I learned that healing is a cyclical and lineal process.
9. I learned that I have to honor my body’s use of energy.
10. I learned that the metaphor is not just a metaphor (i.e. it was in my face).
11. I learned that why something happens to us is not as important as how we deal with what happens to us.
12. I learned that broken-ness is wholeness.